Agenda 2022

Registration of participants

Welcome

Jarosław Stawiarski, Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship

Official opening 

Mateusz Morawiecki, Prime Minister of Poland

Letter of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda

Piotr Ćwik, Deputy Chief of the Chancellery of the President of Poland

Letter of the  Marshal of Sejm Elżbieta Witek

Granting the honorary award of the Congress “International Success in the Three Seas regions”

Speech

Anna Moskwa, Minister of Climate and Environment

Panel I: Three Seas Initiative – Ukraine – challenges of cooperation

Content partner : Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland

Moderator: dr hab. Beata Surmacz, Director of Institute for Central Europe, prof. of UMCS

Speakers:

• Paweł Jabłoński, Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government Plenipotentiary for the Three Seas Initiative
• Andrij Deszczycia, Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland
• Mark Brzezinski, Ambassador of USA to Poland
• Gediminas Varvuolis, Ambassador-at-Large, European Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lithuania
• Konrad Popławski, Head of Central-and Eastern Europe Team, Centre for Eastern Studies

Speech

Gabriela Masłowska, Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for the Three Seas Initiative

Panel II: Energy security of the Three Seas Initiative states in the face of  the war in Ukraine

Content partner: Lower Silesian Institute for Energy Studies (LSIES)

Moderator: Remigiusz Nowakowski, President of the Board,(LSIES)

Speakers:

• Artur Soboń – Secretary of State Ministry of Finance
• Artur Wasil, President of the Board, Lubelski Węgiel “Bogdanka” S.A.
• Jan Szewczak, Member of the Board for Finances, PKN ORLEN
• Paweł Cioch, Vice-President of the Board for Corporate Affairs, PGE S.A.
• Dr Robert Perkowski, Vice-President of the Board for Operations, PGNiG
• Jacek Janiszek, Vice-President of the Board, Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe “Puławy” S.A.

 Lunch

Panel III: Civil Republic – building social capital between Poland and Ukraine

Content partner: Three Seas Initiative Foundation  

Moderator: Ryszard Madziar, Advisor to Deputy Prime Minister Jacek Sasin

Speakers:

• dr Michał Laszczkowski, Director of the National Institute for Preservation of Monuments
• dr Marcin Mazuryk, Dyrektor Departamentu Infrastruktury w Ministerstwie Obrony Narodowej
• Łukasz Turkowski, Coordinator of the Programme Synergy in the Ministry of State Assets
• Dr Tomasz Sińczak, Expert at the Three Seas Initiative Foundation

Speech

hab. Przemysław Czarnek, prof. KUL, Minister of Education and Science (online)

Panel IV: Cooperation of the Three Seas universities

Content partner: Ministry of Education and Science

Moderator: Arkadiusz Robaczewski, Collegium Intermarium

Speakers:

• Justyna Orłowska, Plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister for GovTech and Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Education and Science for Digital Transformation
• Prof. dr hab. n.med. Wojciech Załuska, Rector of the Medical University of Lublin
• Dr hab. prof. KUL, Beata Piskorska, Vice-Rector for Students, Doctoral Students and Development, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• Dr Filip Ludwin, Vice-Rector for Education, Dean of the Department of Law -Collegium Intermarium
• Dr hab. Maciej Szymanowski, prof. PPKE, Director of the W. Felczak Institute of Polish-Hungarian Cooperation

Official acceptance of new members to the Network of the Three Seas Regions

Panel V: Debate of Regions: Network of the Three Seas Regions – cooperation with Ukrainian regions

Content partner: Institute for Development of Local Government of the Lubelskie Voivodeship (IDLG)

Moderator: dr hab. Marcin Szewczak, President of IDLG

Speakers:

• Jarosław Stawiarski, Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship
• Władysław Ortyl, Marshal of the Podkarpackie Voivodeship
• Mykhaylo Golovko, Chairman of the Ternopil Oblast Council
• Borys Voloshenkov, First Deputy of the Chairman of the Odessa Military Administration (online)
• Rostyslav Dobosh, Member of the Lviv Oblast Council
• Ádám Karácsony, Vice-president of Pest County, Hungary
• Marcin Chruściel, President of the Management Board at the Institute of New Europe

ECONOMIC FORUM:

Presentation of companies, partners – stands (Hall S5)

B2B meetings (Hall S7)

ECONOMIC FORUM: Panel I: Business digitization in the Three Seas countries – experiences and challenges after the pandemic .

Content partner: 

Moderator: Błażej Prośniewski – Polish Radio, Economic Editors

Speakers:

• Michał Kanownik – President of the Board, ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska (Association “Digital Poland”)
• Marta Poślad –Head of Public Policy Central and Eastern Europe, Google
• Andrey Bachvarov, PhD –Director of Digital Transformation, Digital National Alliance, Bulgaria
• Virgiljus Dirma – Head of European Union and International Relations at INFOBALT, Lithuania
• Justyna Orłowska, Plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister for GovTech and Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Education and Science for Digital Transformation

ECONOMIC FORUM: Panel II: The economy of the countries in the Three Seas Initiative- potential, key challenges 

Content partner: Institute for Local Government Development of the Lubelskie Voivodeship

Moderator: Mieczysław Ryba, PhD, DSc, ProfTit, The Catholic University of John Paul II

Speakers:

• Piotr Regulski – Chairman of the Supervisory Board Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe “Puławy” S.A.
• Dariusz Dumkiewicz – Vice President of the Management Board, LW Bogdanka S.A. 
• Mateusz Wodejko – Vice President of the Management Board Poczta Polska S.A. 
• Konstantin Bekos – Commercial Advisor of the Austrian Embassy in Warsaw
• Robert Zapotoczny – CEO, PFR Portal PPK

ECONOMIC FORUM: Panel III : Modern education – good practices from the Three Seas Countries  

Content partner: Ministry of Education and Science

Moderator: Michał Kanownik, President of the Board, ZIPSEE Cyfrowa Polska (Association “Digital Poland”)

Speakers:

• Arkadiusz Jabłoński Hab. PhD, Professor of KUL, Dean Faculty of Social Sciences The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
• Michał Grześ, CEO & Board Member, Photon
• Weronika Kuna, Director, Microsoft Poland
• Michał Przymusiński, Vice-director of Educational Research Institute
• Justyna Orłowska, Plenipotentiary of the Prime Minister for GovTech and Plenipotentiary of the Minister of Education and Science for Digital Transformation

ECONOMIC FORUM: STUDY VISIT

Perła – Browary Lubelskie S.A.

Official concert “Music of the Three Seas” in CSK (Centre for the Meeting of Cultures) in Lublin

FULL PROGRAMME OF THE CONCERT

Registration of participants

Opening speech

Jacek Sasin, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State Assets (Poland)

Granting the award “International Success in the Three Seas regions” in the categories:

• Person, who has contributed to the development of the Three Seas Initiative
• International company
• Regional company

Speech

Dr Marek Dietl, President of the Warsaw Stock Exchange

Speech

Henryk Kowalczyk, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development

Panel I: Situation on agri-food markets after the Russian aggression against Ukraine – current status and prospects

Content partner: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Moderator: Andrzej Jaworski, President of Economy & Trade Chamber of Food Market

• Monika Piątkowska, President of the Polish Grand and Feed Chamber
• Dr inż. Andrzej Gantner, Vice-President of the General Federation of Food producers, Union of Employers
• Michał Moskal, Head of Political BUREAU OF THE Deputy Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński
• Marcin Wroński, Deputy Director General of National Centre for Agriculture Support
• Waldemar Guba, Director of the Department of Agricultural Markets, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development

Panel II: Is there a need to redefine the policy of transport corridors on the north-south axis in the context of present geopolitical situation? Finalisation of works on the road routes, coherent network of railway connections

Content partner: Ministry of Inrastructure, Poland

Moderator: Adrian Klarenbach, TVP journalist

Speakers:

• Andrei Spinu, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Republic of Moldova (online)
• Nikolay Sabev, Minister of Transport and Communication, Bulgaria
• Andrzej Adamczyk, Minister of Infrastructure, Poland
• Oleksandr Kubrakov, Minister of Infrastructure, Ukraine
• Linda Medne, Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, Latvia
• Julius Skačkauskas, Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications, Lithuania
• Adrian George Foghis, Secretary of State, Ministry of Transport And Infrastructure, Romania
• Ioannis Xifaras, Hellenic Infrastructure and Transport Ministry’s Secretary General for Transport, Greece

Signing the international agreement on transport

Joint declaration of cooperation for the development of European Transport Corridors “Baltic – Black Sea/Aegean” and “Western Balkans” between the Minister of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Minister of Infrastructure of the Republic of Poland

Lunch

Panel III: Growing Europe – business and health of the Three Seas region

Content partner: PZU

Moderator:  Andrzej Jaworski, Member of the Board, PZU Życie S.A.

• dr Piotr Kuszewski, President of PTE PZU S.A.
• Marcin Gomoła, PZU Zdrowie
• Wojciech Krysztofik, Ministry of State Assets
• Paweł Kuśmierowski, Partner Associate,, leade of Consulting Life Science and Healthcare, Deloitte Digital
• Dr hab. Marcin Szewczak, prof. KUL

Panel IV: Ahead of the summit in Riga: opportunities and challenges faced by the Three Seas Initiative

Content partner: Institute of Central Europe

Moderator: Marlena Gołębiowska, Senior analyst in the Baltic Division of the Institute of Central Europe,  research fellow at the Catholic University of Lublin

Speakers:

• dr hab. Agnieszka Orzelska-Stączek , prof. Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences , expert on the Three Seas Initiative, Poland
• dr Vít Dostál, Executive Director of the Association for International Affairs , Czech Republic
• dr Andrzej Pukszto, Lithuanian historian, political scientist, publicist and jouranalist of the Polish nationality, University of Witold the Great in Kaunas, Lithuania
• Miklós Mitrovits, historian, Polish philologist, Institute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Central Europe at the University of Public Service in Budapest, Hungary
• dr Łukasz Lewkowicz, Head of Visegrad Group Division at the Institute of Central Europe, research fellow at UMCS (University of Marie Curie-Sklodowska), Poland

Seminar: Interreg programmes as a platform of cooperation of the Three Seas regions

Opening:

• Zbigniew Wojciechowski, Vice-Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship
• Bogdan Kawałko, Director of the Department for Strategy and Regional Development, Marshal Office of the Lubelskie Voivodeship
• Sławomir Tokarski, Director of Territorial Cooperation, microregions, Interreg and implementing projects, DG Regio, European Commission

Moderator: Rafał Baliński, Director of Territorial Cooperation Department, Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy

Speakers:

• Nina Taylor, Project Manager, E-Institute, Institute for Comprehensive Development Solutions, Slovenia
• prof. dr hab. Wiesław Oleszek, Director of Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation – State Research Institute in Puławy
• Marion Schönfeldinger, Forschung Burgenland GmbH, Austria
• dr Kajetan Kościk, Head of Division of Renewable Energy Sources, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Marshal Office of the Lubelskie Voivodeship
• Ilga Gruševa, Senior Expert of Territorial Cooperation Unit/ Development Instruments Department, Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development of Latvia
• Tudor Drambarean, Alba Iulia Municipality, Romania
• Tünde Szabó, Senior Regional Development Manager, Department of Development , Planning and Strategy, Hajdú-Bihar County, Hungary
• Wojciech Żukowski, President of the Board, Euroregion “Roztocze”
• Serhiy Gemberg, Deputy Administration Head of Rivne Regional State Administration, Ukraine
• Yurii Buchko, Deputy Administration Head of Lviv Regional State Administration, Ukraine

Economic Forum:

Presentation of companies, partners – stands (Hall S5)

B2B meetings (Hall S7)

ECONOMIC FORUM: Lubelskie Meet&Greet – Start-up Community

Content partner: Lublin Science and Technology Park

FULL AGENDA – LUBELSKIE MEET&GREET

ECONOMIC FORUM: Panel I: The trade fair and exhibition industry in the Three Seas Region -opportunities for cooperation.

Content partner: Targi Lublin S.A.

Moderator: Marcin Kania, General Director, HW Property Wieniawski Hotel 

Speakers:

• Michał Mulawa, Vice Marshal of the Lubelskie Voivodeship
• Robert Głowacki, Chairman of the Management Board Targi Lublin S.A.
• Nina Ermenc Pangerl, Vice president of the Management Board Celje Fair Plc, Slovenia
• Radoslav Klepáč, External Relations and Communications Director BVV – Trade Fairs Brno, Czech Republic (online)

ECONOMIC FORUM: PANEL II : Sustainable development in agriculture in the Three Seas Initiative – aims and tasks  

Content partner: Economy &Trade Chamber of Food Market

Moderator: Hubert Grzegorczyk, Secretary of the Economy &Trade Chamber of Food Market

Speakers:

• Roman Niżnikowski, PhD, DSc, ProfTit, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Faculty of Animal Science, Department of Animal Breeding  
• Leszek Kowalczyk,  councilman of the Lubelskie Voivodeship  
• Daniel Alain Korona, PhD, President of the Management Board of Elewarr  
• Marcin Majerowski, Vice president of the Management Board of PTE PZU S.A.
• Tomasz Olenderek, Member of the Board, Krajowa Grupa Spożywcza SA.  
• Krzysztof Łyskawa, PhD, DSc, Assistant Professor at the Department of Insurance, Poznań University of Economics

ECONOMIC FORUM: PANEL III: Business transformation – an individual task or multisectoral work?  

Content partner: Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A

Moderator: Aleksandra Stanek-Kowalczyk, PhD Director of SAPERE Sustainable Business Solutions, SGH Warsaw School of Economic

Speakers:

• Grzegorz Grzywaczewski,  PhD, DSc, President of the Board of the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Lublin  
• Mateusz Kowalski, Vice President of the Board Pekao Investment Fund Societies. S.A. 
• Justyna Majsnerowicz, Vice President of the Board in the Department of Finances Grupa Azoty Zakłady Azotowe “Puławy” S.A. 
• Krzysztof Golubiewski, Member of the Board PKP S.A.  

Signing a letter of intent establishing the Łęczyński Energy Cluster. 

Establishment of the Scientific Council for Environmental Protection at Lubelski Węgiel Bogdanka S.A. 

Economic forum: study visit

Candy Factory “Pszczółka” Ltd.